Today was my first Holy Communion as a confirmed member of the Church of England. There were three of us in the service this morning who had been confirmed in Coventry Cathedral on 22nd November. This was the first Communion service in our church since then.
I had previously taken Communion as a baptised member of the Methodist Church, but this was my “First Communion” as a confirmed member of the Anglican Church. It was also the very first Communion of Anne, the vicar’s daughter, which made it very special.
The Communion service is highly symbolic, with Communion wafers and not very alcoholic wine. I think we should sometimes do it the way Jesus and his Disciples did it at Jesus’s last supper on earth, where they were all sat at table; Jesus broke bread, handed it around, and passed the cup of wine around. His command was “Do this in remembrance of me”.